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A Colonial Introduction

By Jennifer Price

For the next three weeks, hundreds of incoming freshmen will descend on GW, touring the campus, learning about their specific school and getting a taste of college...

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A Literary Disrobing

By Julia Parmley

In 2002, Kathleen Rooney suddenly found herself unemployed after resisting the advances of a supervisor. But in her next job, Ms....

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Voracious Voyager

By Julia Parmley

“The world is moving under your feet wherever you are.”

As she listened to a lecture by Jim Miller, president of the American Institute for Maghreb Studies, in...

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A Campus Abuzz

By Rachel Muir

Tucked away behind Hand Chapel are the Mount Vernon Campus’s newest residents.

All 120,000 of them.

The Italian honeybees—four hives’ worth—arrived on campus...

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Local Art

By Menachem Wecker 

One of the things I enjoy most about living in Foggy Bottom is the scenery: gorgeous, historic row houses in pastel yellows, pinks, oranges and blues surrounded by...

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Examining Malaria Resistance

By Jennifer Price

A George Washington doctoral student has won a $10,000 dissertation writing fellowship from the American Anthropological Association.

Felicia Gomez, M.Phil...

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Fugitive to Freshman

By Rachel Muir

At age 6, Musadiq Bidar was working 12 hours a day, six days a week in a Pakistani carpet factory.

This fall, he will become a Colonial.

His journey from his...

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A Journey through Africa

By Julia Parmley

In Africa, there is conflict. There is famine. There is an HIV/AIDS epidemic. These were just some of the stories Bernard Pollack, B.A.’02, M.A.’03, would hear about the...

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Analyzing Fuel Cells

In his 2003 State of the Union address, former President George W. Bush proposed $1.2 billion in funding for research developing hydrogen-powered cars. “A simple chemical reaction between hydrogen...

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Rewarding Research

By Menachem Wecker

When Leo Chalupa, vice president for research, finished drilling freshmen Gaurav Dhiman and Mark Mallozzi about their poster on detecting sources of bacterial...